PowerScale OneFS 9.2.1.0 CloudPools Administration Guide

Create a file pool policy for cloud storage (Web UI)

You can create file pool policies that specify CloudPools actions to be applied to selected files.

1. Click File System > Storage Pools > File Pool Policies.
2. Click the + Create a File Pool Policy button.

   The Create a File Pool Policy dialog box displays.

3. Enter a policy name and, optionally, a description.
4. In the Select Files to Manage area, use the pull-down menus to specify the file selection criteria for cloud storage. The criteria you specify are used by OneFS to determine the files to archive. The criteria you specify for file selection can include the following attributes, combined with Boolean operators:
   • Filename
   • Path
   • File Type
   • File Attribute
   • Modified
   • Accessed
   • Metadata Changed
   • Created
   • Size
5. In the Apply CloudPools Actions to Selected Files area, select Move to cloud storage.
6. In the CloudPool Storage Target drop-down menu, select an existing CloudPool, and specify whether to encrypt and compress data before it is archived to the cloud.
7. Click Show Advanced CloudPool Settings to specify additional cloud storage options. See the table in File pool policy cloud archive parameters for explanations of each parameter.

   Section	Parameter
   Data Retention Settings	Cloud Data Retention Period Incremental Backup Retention Period for NDMP Incremental Backup and SyncIQ: Full Backup Retention Period for NDMP Only
   Accessibility and Cache Settings	Writeback Frequency Accessibility Cache Read Ahead Cache Expiration

8. Click Create Policy.

   The file pool policy appears under File Pool Policies in the File Pool Policies window.